It's not quite time for the new list of additions at the Library of Congress, but as I was looking around I discoverd:Candidates for the National Film Registry: The Public Reviews

* Find out information on this ongoing film series at the Library of Congress' Mary Pickford Theater. Check out the film introductions-- Camille, Choose Me, Daughter of Shanghai, The Desert Song, Face Behind the Mask, Fang and Claw & Tiger Fangs, The Florentine Dagger, From Here to Eternity, King of the Khyber Rifles, My Sister Eileen (1942), My Sister Eileen (1953), Outcast and Legion of Terror, 1776, Those Three French Girls and A Damsel in Distress, Two-Lane Blacktop, The Wild One and Gimme Shelter, and With Williamson Beneath the Sea.

I wish somebody would make a deal with LOC (and various copyright holders if needed) to make DVDs of some of the more obscure things they list. Commandment Keeping Church and Buffalo Creek Flood aren't even on IMDB (they'll probably have to add it now.) There are shorts and other rare films that if LOC is looking to preserve these, they really ought to be put out into the world to be seen.

The good news, A Time for Burning is in my library system, so I've got it on order, along with a KEaton collection that includes The Cameraman.

Fargo kind of surprises me for the list. 1996 would mean it gets in on 1st year of eligibility. It's not that I don't think it's worthy, but so soon?

Why is it worthy? I never "got" that movie.

Are you worthy if you didn't get it? Actually, I take your point. It is certainly open to debate to what extent it fits the Registry criteria. Rocky I think certainly fits the criteria. I would even go with Blazing Saddles. (The announcement at the Library of Congress site, btw, has notes about each film). Certainly Fargo is no Willie Mays (in Cooperstown in his first year eligible).

This doesn't strike me as being as strong as recent lists. I wonder if there's been some turnover in the selection group.